Spoken word, harsh-noise, left field pop, post punk og grunge. Dansk musik viser virkelig mange ansigter for tiden. Men de udgivelser, vi har bemærket og ikke nået at anmelde på Passive/Aggressive det seneste kvartal, har det til fælles, at de virker ret ligeglade med, hvilke genrer, vi kan finde på at rubricere dem i.

Article and pictures by Juliette Thouin In Ocean of Sound (1995), sound artist and music theorist David Toop gives an alternative history of ambient music that weaves together an immensely disparate array of sounds, genres, styles, stories, and eras. Going from Debussy to Sun Ra to Aphex to Lee Perry to Arthur Russell, it’s a story of experimental (and technological) music’s journey across the twentieth century. A particularly engaging aspect of Toop’s theory is his departure from ambient’s ...

Passive/Aggressive bringer her et ganske særligt indblik fra Haloplus+’s nyligt overståede turné i Østasien. Det kreative kollektiv bestående af Stine Victoria Kobæk Pedersen, Joakim Wei Bernild og Isak Nam Sook Tind sendte undervejs fotos og tanker hjem fra Japan og Korea, som du her får lov at se. Tekst: Mathias Schønberg, fotos: Haloplus+ For et par måneder siden mødte jeg ...

Various Artists: “bag/belly/box” (Rhizome, 2021) – review by Ivna Franic “One relationship among elements in the novel may well be that of conflict, but the reduction of narrative to conflict is absurd. (I have read a how-to-write manual that said, “A story should be seen as a battle,” and went on about strategies, attacks, victory, etc). Conflict, competition, stress, struggle, etc., within ...

Raquin “Dance of the Peacock” & Ryong “s/t” (Janushoved, 2019) – anmeldelse af Alexander Julin Mortensen Mens januar ebbede mod sin ende, blev tre nye titler tilføjet til Janushoveds fortsat ekspanderende katalog af båndudgivelser. Ud over “One Shot, One Life” af Internazionale, Mikkel Valentins 20. (!) udgivelse under aliasset, udkom der bånd fra to af de aktører, der senest er ...